Archive for April, 2016

In the beginning of reforms era in early 2000s, Indonesia had seen many political leaders and religious characters performed public piety for political or financial gain. These figures’ public display of piety, sincerity and honesty would later on proved to be fake or in Indonesian language ‘aspal (asli tapi palsu)‘. […]

Decentralisation in Indonesia has increased the power of local government to manage their budget, regional development, and strategic policy. This urge of democracy has sparked the number of political parties in Indonesia from only 3 parties to over 40 parties and established the direct election of district head; assuming that […]

His Excellency Professor Bambang Brodjonegoro, Indonesian Minister of Finance, delivered a public lecture attended by more than 200 people at ANU on 24 March 2016. The Lecture was held at the Molonglo Theatre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. Professor Brodjonegoro spoke about structural reform and fiscal policy […]

On 12 April 2016, the ANU Indonesia Project, in collaboration with the Institute for Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics and Business – Universtas Indonesia (LPEM FEB UI) and the Indonesia Services Dialogue (ISD) conducted the Tenth Sadli Lecture and International Services Summit 2016. Professors Mari Pangestu of Universitas […]

Following The 10th Sadli Lecture in Jakarta, the ANU Indonesia Project together with the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Gadjah Mada University (UGM), held an Eminent people talk the walk seminar at UGM. The ANU Indonesia Project sponsored Professor Mari Pangestu from the University of Indonesia and Professor […]

On 15 April 2016, Associate Professor Budy Resosudarmo, Head of ANU Indonesia Project (The Project), gave a talk at the Faculty of Economics, Sebelas Maret University (UNS) in Solo. Associate Professor Resosudarmo introduced The Project’s activities and discussed newly developed methods in regional economics studies. The event was […]

Pierre van der Eng presenting his paper in Tsinghua University Associate Professor Pierre van der Eng is an ANU Indonesia Project academic staff member currently based in Beijing, China for the next three years. On 11 April Pierre presented a new paper entitled “Perpetual Dutch disease: Indonesia’s long-term path of industrialisation, 1870-2015” […]

The ANU Indonesia Project, represented by its Head, Associate Professor Budy Resosudarmo, held a meeting with the University of Syiah Kuala (Unsyiah) in Banda Aceh on 14 March 2016, shortly after the FKP Roadshow at the same university. Associate Professor Resosudarmo met with Unsyiah’s Vice Rector of International Cooperation, […]

Reported by Bayu Tegar Perkasa “J-PAL is a network of over 130 professors and 7 research centers around the world who use randomized evaluations to inform public policy,” Claire Walsh (J-PAL Southeast Asia) explained in first FKP hosted by Bank Indonesia on 3 February 2016. On this occasion Claire disseminated […]

Reported by Bayu Tegar Perkasa At the FKP hosted by Article 33 on 28 January 2016, Umi Purnamasari (Article 33) argued that mountain ecosystems are meritorious on keeping ecological balance, yet people are rarely conscious about how much it has served us, let alone the value of such services. It […]